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  • One of the most challenging fractions of waste in a zero waste vision is all that is left over after recycling—because it is either too toxic to be safely recycled...
    Time to vote out waste at the People’s Design Lab

    One of the most challenging fractions of waste in a zero waste vision is all that is left over after recycling—because it is either too toxic to be safely recycled…

  • Zero Waste is about minimising waste generation, maximising reuse & recycle and redesigning the economy in order to phase out those products that are either toxic or not recyclable. However,...
    What to do with the “leftovers” of Zero Waste

    Zero Waste is about minimising waste generation, maximising reuse & recycle and redesigning the economy in order to phase out those products that are either toxic or not recyclable. However,…

  • Have you heard of the 3R, Reduce, Reuse Recycle? This was the first waste hierarchy that was popularised. Even Jack Johnson wrote a song about it, see: It is true...
    From the 3Rs to the Zero Waste hierarchy

    Have you heard of the 3R, Reduce, Reuse Recycle? This was the first waste hierarchy that was popularised. Even Jack Johnson wrote a song about it, see: It is true…

  • One of the most challenging fractions of waste in a zero waste vision is all that is left over after recycling—because it is either too toxic to be safely recycled... 0

    Time to vote out waste at the People’s Design Lab

    Posted on 6 days ago
    One of the most challenging fractions of waste in a zero waste vision is all that is left over after recycling—because it is either too toxic to be safely recycled...

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  • Zero Waste is about minimising waste generation, maximising reuse & recycle and redesigning the economy in order to phase out those products that are either toxic or not recyclable. However,... 0

    What to do with the “leftovers” of Zero Waste

    Posted on 1 week ago
    Zero Waste is about minimising waste generation, maximising reuse & recycle and redesigning the economy in order to phase out those products that are either toxic or not recyclable. However,...

    Continue Reading

  • Have you heard of the 3R, Reduce, Reuse Recycle? This was the first waste hierarchy that was popularised. Even Jack Johnson wrote a song about it, see: It is true... 0

    From the 3Rs to the Zero Waste hierarchy

    Posted on 2 weeks ago
    Have you heard of the 3R, Reduce, Reuse Recycle? This was the first waste hierarchy that was popularised. Even Jack Johnson wrote a song about it, see: It is true...

    Continue Reading

  • When waste has a value littering disappears and recycling skyrockets. This is in a nutshell what the deposit system for packaging waste is about; one pays a deposit when buying... 0

    Catalan Zero Waste network launches pilot bottle-deposit project in Cadaqués

    Posted on on 04/18/2013
    When waste has a value littering disappears and recycling skyrockets. This is in a nutshell what the deposit system for packaging waste is about; one pays a deposit when buying...

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  • The Goldman Environmental Prize, considered to be the “Green Nobel”, has been awarded to Rossano Ercolini, leader of the Zero Waste movement in Italy (Rifiuti Zero) and president of Zero... 1

    Rossano Ercolini, president of Zero Waste Europe 2013 wins the Green Nobel award

    Posted on on 04/15/2013
    The Goldman Environmental Prize, considered to be the “Green Nobel”, has been awarded to Rossano Ercolini, leader of the Zero Waste movement in Italy (Rifiuti Zero) and president of Zero...

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  • Capannori was the first European town to adhere the Zero Waste goal for 2020, will Italy also be the first EU country to pass a ZW law? On March 27... 2

    Kick off of the Citizens Initiative for a Italian Zero Waste Law 2020!

    Posted on on 04/02/2013
    Capannori was the first European town to adhere the Zero Waste goal for 2020, will Italy also be the first EU country to pass a ZW law? On March 27...

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  • Nobody knows. In fact, marine litter in European waters is not only of European origin, it stems from any other place in the world where trash is dumped into the... 0

    How much plastic litter is currently in EU waters?

    Posted on on 03/22/2013
    Nobody knows. In fact, marine litter in European waters is not only of European origin, it stems from any other place in the world where trash is dumped into the...

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  • Since the invention of coffee-capsules we have seen how this potentially recyclable item was filling up more and more waste bins. In places where waste separation is at highest levels... 0

    Looking for solutions to single-use coffee-capsules

    Posted on on 03/12/2013
    Since the invention of coffee-capsules we have seen how this potentially recyclable item was filling up more and more waste bins. In places where waste separation is at highest levels...

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  • More than two hundred people including members of the European Parliament, mayors and local decision-makers, European Commission, the European Commissioner for the Environment Janez Potocnik and the famous actor Jeremy... 2

    Potocnik: “Zero Waste is the right aspiration”

    Posted on on 03/08/2013
    More than two hundred people including members of the European Parliament, mayors and local decision-makers, European Commission, the European Commissioner for the Environment Janez Potocnik and the famous actor Jeremy...

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  • Sad news for the European Union; 2011 statistics show how despite the economic downturn and the decrease in consumption waste generation stays stable, recycling and composting stagnate and so does... 1

    Recycling stagnates in the EU – lesson for EU waste & resource policy?

    Posted on on 03/04/2013
    Sad news for the European Union; 2011 statistics show how despite the economic downturn and the decrease in consumption waste generation stays stable, recycling and composting stagnate and so does...

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  • Dopper decided to give an alternative to the use of millions of single-use plastic bottles that are tossed away every minute. Indeed, the opposite of Zero Waste is using a... 0

    Dopper, the bottle is the message!

    Posted on on 02/28/2013
    Dopper decided to give an alternative to the use of millions of single-use plastic bottles that are tossed away every minute. Indeed, the opposite of Zero Waste is using a...

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  • It was about time to bring the Zero Waste ideas to the European institutions. With the help of the Green group in the European Parliament and with the support of... 8

    Zero Waste goes to the European Parliament in Brussels!

    Posted on on 02/20/2013
    It was about time to bring the Zero Waste ideas to the European institutions. With the help of the Green group in the European Parliament and with the support of...

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  • Rossano Ercolini, president of Zero Waste Europe 2013 wins the Green Nobel award
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